U.K. Covid Test Demand Is ‘Significantly Outstripping’ Capacity
- NHS Test and Trace chief Dido Harding speaks in Parliament
- Harding: surge in demand for virus tests was not predicted
Vehicles queue outside a Covid-19 drive through testing center in Bolton, U.K., on Sept. 17. Cases are rising again after falling off over the summer.
Photographer: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
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Demand for coronavirus tests is “significantly outstripping” the capacity available, the U.K.’s testing chief said.
The number of people calling the Covid-19 phone helpline and visiting the government website totaled three to four times the number of tests, Dido Harding, head of the National Health Service Test and Trace program, told the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee on Thursday.